Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

Jacob Allyn

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Senior Physics & Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unity vehicle and multiplayer systems

9y exp

“Unity/C# engineer who led and shipped a backend-driven mobile AR platform (4D VIEWR) using Vuforia, enabling dynamic content delivery without app updates and focusing heavily on stability under real-world tracking/connectivity constraints. Also shipped authoritative-server multiplayer matchmaking/gameplay flow for NBA 2K vehicle modes, including server-side anti-cheat validation and live issue instrumentation. Recently built a self-hosted multi-agent LLM pipeline to accelerate game-dev workflows with strong reliability and cost/latency controls.”

“Multi-time founding team member who helped raise capital at HotSchedules and Axial Shift, contributing investor-facing narratives around cost to serve, technology vision, scalability, and market opportunity. Motivated by building companies from the ground up, they bring a hands-on zero-to-one mindset paired with a strong understanding of what angels and VCs need to see in a scalable, standards-compliant product.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

Pratik Patil

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React and FinTech SaaS

New York, NY6y exp

“Senior engineer at BDI Plus who is already using AI coding tools as a core part of daily development, with hands-on experience building enterprise LLM products such as ChatCDP AI for Morgan Stanley analysts. Particularly strong at making AI systems trustworthy and usable through auditable outputs, streaming UX, and resilient state-machine-driven error handling.”

Harika M

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“DevOps- and infrastructure-focused engineer who is already applying AI in practical delivery workflows, including Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and multi-agent automation. Stands out for combining AI-driven productivity with disciplined validation through testing, code review, and security checks, and for leading cross-functional AI integration across development, QA, and infrastructure.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who has shipped both operational SaaS and LLM-powered research tools to production. Built a dispatch optimization system at Quickflora that cut manual effort by ~50%, and also developed grounded RAG and agentic systems using tools like LlamaIndex, Gemini, pgvector, and FastAPI with a strong emphasis on citations, reliability, and practical user workflows.”

“Frontend-focused engineer building production-grade, browser-based AI products, including a live clinical decision support platform for Stanford clinicians. Stands out for combining sophisticated React/TypeScript streaming UI architecture with strong browser performance expertise, including Core Web Vitals and rendering-pipeline optimization.”

Kinjal Patel

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a core consent management service for an open banking platform using Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and secure REST APIs. Stands out for combining domain knowledge in financial data sharing and consent controls with practical system design that improved customer self-service and reduced support dependency.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production telemedicine dashboard at Cleveland Clinic, spanning React/TypeScript frontend, Spring Boot and Node.js backend services, and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure. Stands out for real-time systems expertise, measurable performance improvements in a healthcare setting, and a clear interest in applying that backend/cloud foundation to AI agent systems.”

Joshua Newell

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in embedded systems and secure communications

Remote, USA14y exp

“Engineer with experience in defense and aerospace-adjacent software, including serving as lead engineer on an SBIR contract for a Space Force warfighter communication system. Has hands-on full-stack experience improving a flight test sensor management application with React, Perl, and Oracle SQL, plus recent systems work in Rust observability and Go-based secure communications integration.”

Julian Lobeto

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer mobile games

Argentina10y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with strong multiplayer and live-service experience across Android, iOS, and PC. Particularly notable for architecting a configurable FTUE/tutorial framework that empowered designers to iterate without engineering support, and for deep hands-on work with Photon Quantum deterministic networking, including desync/checksum debugging and authoritative server integration.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Frontend engineer who has led React + TypeScript products end-to-end, emphasizing scalable architecture (custom hooks, compound components) and quality via strict typing, CI, and code review standards. Experienced shipping complex multi-step workflows with strong performance practices (virtualization, code splitting, RUM) and de-risked rollouts using feature flags, monitoring, and rapid iteration in collaboration with product/design.”

“Backend/web API engineer with hands-on experience deploying .NET Core APIs to Azure App Service and stabilizing production systems through disciplined log-driven troubleshooting, environment configuration management, and SQL performance tuning (execution plans, query rewrites, indexing). Has also debugged cross-layer incidents involving DB locks and network latency, and modifies Python/XML automation scripts to meet customer-specific requirements while improving logging and performance.”

“Frontend engineer with experience delivering complex, data-heavy React + TypeScript dashboards in financial services (Morgan Stanley), including React 18 migration and rigorous quality practices (~80% test coverage). Also improved an existing collaboration product (Heycollab) by reducing duplication and boosting performance ~30% using component modularization, API optimizations, code splitting, and virtualization; experienced with phased rollouts and feature flags for risk-sensitive releases.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned enterprise workflow platforms end-to-end at Northern Trust and Elevance Health—building NestJS/Java Spring Boot APIs, React UIs, and cloud deployments on GCP Cloud Run. Strong in data-heavy applications (hundreds of thousands of records) with proven production performance tuning (indexing/query rewrites, Cloud Run concurrency/min instances) and secure RBAC via Azure AD.”

“Software engineer with experience delivering customer-facing and internal tools across GE Renewables, GE Healthcare (supply chain/production systems), and a Boulder-based event app startup. Recently focused on scaling backend performance using Redis and RabbitMQ, and has hands-on experience resolving hard-to-reproduce production issues in legacy authentication/session systems; also deployed a personal project (Journal Buddy) publicly.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”